Neuroscientist: THIS Is Why You Feel TRIGGERED All the Time

Dr. Andrew Huberman explains the effects of political polarization and extremism on the brain and body.

Andrew Huberman is an American neuroscientist and tenured associate professor in the department of neurobiology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Speaker: Andrew Huberman
YouTube: @richroll

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[OsirisNin]

This is so important.

When you feel yourself sucked in to hating or spewing vitriol at another group you deem as less than/worse/more immoral than yourself, you’re likely in the thick of a neurological trap.

In other words, you’re being played.

Take your power back. Do not let them play you. That’s what they want.

[desireeb]

This is absolutely AMAZING!!!! This has helped me understand what is going on and WHY change has been so hard to see; WHY social media has exploded the unthinkable degradation of others via a keyboard… Dopamine is such a double-edged sword.

[Onthecouch-rr]

I had a lightbulb moment watching this. I was a addict for 23 yrs been clean for 8 and only now is the brian fog lifting

[tothemoon]

LEARN TO REGULATE THE SELF
This is What ive been working on for 4 years, but I didn’t know what it was called!! Getting close now.

[gigilaroux]

Explains why social media algorithms are horrible for us and creates large barriers to our own internal peace.

[veclubby]

This explains what we are seeing on college campuses. They are fighting for a cause, yet they don't even know what that cause is. The dopamine reward keeps them fighting more...

[goodperson]

The problem is the human society is selfish. And individual's goal is to survive in this society, among selfish human beings. That is why anger and agression is supported by dopamine system as means to improve the survival rate of the individuals. People have to become kinder. Kindness, compassion towards others are the key and have to be tought from the earliest age possible.

[HermanGauche]

@4:53 Being able to hear and listen
hinges on the ability to remain calm,
and hearing and listening are crucial
to our advancement as individuals🧘

[EILEENMACLEODmacleodspotshots]

An aha moment to understanding, thank you !👍👌✌️🙏Aotearoa (N.Z.).

[chefe]

Last Friday I was laid off from work after year there, for being great employee, having my opinions and not being YES MAN MAN.i came home smiling and feeling great, WTF?? YES because I refused other human actions which I couldn't control, to control how I feel about myself and who I am, my self-esteem and my value, I refuset for others to telle how I'm supposed to feel and act! Not even week from there passed already few interviews and off to new job next week.
In times of misfortune do what 99 % of people would never do, and you be the 1 % that thrive.

[musiclover]

Jup calming down is very important and helpful in stressful situations. Doesn’t always work immediately but over time the thing is sometimes time isn’t always available to decompose. Still important to stay calm.

[johnnyc]

Excellent video Andrew. Learning to regulate our inner selves is the only way to go if we want change ourselves and the world around us. All education should hinge on this principle. Thank you for all the work you do to promote better lives.

[samstern]

@hubermanlab thank you for bringing all of this together.

In the end - there are big politics, and big truths, and big ideas. But all of it, always, has to go through our very limited human mental and emotional systems. And in this we are united as humans, more than in anything else.

We are united at being incessantly meaning making, dopamine seeking, tranquility averse, trauma shaped, perpetually lazy creatures. With tremendous hidden potential for divine transcendence and barrier breaking love, just to make us more confusing and precious.

[mgoldsmith]

Adrenaline addiction is one of the hardest to break. But when you do, when you realise that cortisol is killing you, and that the rush is the *cause* of the problems, a whole different world arises. This video is great information if you are in the midst of this struggle.

[kaali.dhwani]

One of the most interesting things I've ever heard.. Huberman ❤

[Majnun]

Wonderful breakdown. People need to hear this. Thank you, Andrew❤

[OscarSchraven]

The common game is divide and conquer, so get the to get people mad at each other and fight for the good cause and is highly rewarding/addictive even when it’s ‘just’ in games of any kind. War plans are the blueprint of our society. Strategy in business and science model. The gathering of data to information and the observant being an influence on what’s seen/ how what’s seen appears. And how the sawing of conflict adds to it/ mirrors it back. All for peace…

[AM]

This clarifies do much. The evolutionary advantage could be to fught against depression and a sense of helplessness brought on by environmental conditions? Thank you for all the brilliant insights.

[gregheld]

Who is up for forming a group of motivated individuals testing out different strategies to regulate themselves to not be a slave of our triggers anymore?

[Maddie]

I was saying something similar to my son today. It is so easy for us humans to think negatively then to think positively, and that’s because society has set it up that way because negativity sells.